Writeable Laminating Pouches To Protect Your Documents

Posted by mybinding

April 9, 2008

Lamination is the perfect solution for protecting your documents from becoming damaged. However, sometimes it would be really nice to be able to write on your laminated documents. This can be difficult since the glossy finish that you get with most laminating pouches isn’t usually writable. To solve this problem, matte laminating pouches can be used allowing you to write on the finished surface with a regular ball point pen.

Matte laminating pouches provide the best of both worlds. You get the protection that comes from regular laminating pouches and you get an elegant writable surface on the finished product. Generally speaking, matte laminating pouches are available in two different styles.

1. Matte / Matte laminating pouches provide a soft non glossy writable coating on both sides of your document. Matte Matte laminating pouches are ideal for signs that are posted in sunlight since they won’t have the glare that comes with glossy pouches. These pouches are also ideal for providing an elegant finish on business cards or other marketing materials.

2. Matte / Clear pouches have a traditional glossy coating on one side (non-writable) and a writeable matte coating on the other side. Matte Clear pouches are ideal for documents such as sales flyers or presentation materials where you want the finished gloss look for the customer to see but where you need the ability to write on the back of the document.

Writeable pouches are also ideal for business cards or other materials where you might want to leave your customers with your phone number, email address, or website URL. With matte laminating pouches you can have the rigidity that you get with normal pouches but you can also easily write this information for your customers to have for later. For sales people this is ideal.

Matte Matte and Matte Clear pouches are available in a number of different sizes including: credit card size, business card size, note card size, file card size, luggage tag size, military size, drivers license size, letter size, and menu size. These pouches are available in a 5mil thickness (5mil on each side) for laminating documents that need protection but are still flexible. Pouches are also available in a 10mil thickness (10mil on each side) for documents that require extra rigidity such as signs, point of purchase displays and materials that will be handled with regularity. Both thicknesses have the same matte properties some are just heavier than the others.

Jeff McRitchie is the designer and Director of Marketing for http://www.MyBinding.com He has written numerous articles on laminators, laminating pouches, laminating supplies and more.

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